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Bonner & Partners SAN MARTIN, ARGENTINA – What joy for a cynic! Here is proof that the human race is every bit as stupid and as cupid as he always thought it was. Two of the biggest public policy humbugs in human history have come in the last 90 days. Today, we look at the first one. On their own, people are passably competent and tolerably intelligent. They drive down highways at 70 mph. They balance their checkbooks. They get along with each other. But give them “public policy,” and…

TIM STICKINGS JP Morgan research said infection rates had fallen since lockdowns were eased It suggested the virus ‘has its own dynamics’ which are ‘unrelated’ to lockdowns Report said they were imposed with little thought of ‘economic devastation’ Coronavirus lockdowns have failed to alter the course of the pandemic but have instead ‘destroyed millions of livelihoods’, a JP Morgan study has claimed. Falling infection rates since lockdowns were lifted suggest that the virus ‘likely has its own dynamics’ which are ‘unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures’, a report published by…

Jeffrey A. Tucker Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020, it happened to all of us, causing an avalanche of social, cultural, and economic destruction that will ring through the ages. There was nothing normal about it all. We’ll be trying to figure out what happened…

Michael Snyder [Editor’s note: While agreeing with Michael Snyder that the lockdowns are worthless and even counterproductive, he has it wrong about the vastly greater numbers of persons who have been infected, which establishes that the death rate is minuscule compared to what we have been told. For a nice discussion of this key point, see Del Bigtree Highwire (23 April 2020).] When it comes to COVID-19, most Americans seem to be gravitating toward one of two extremes. Some are treating this pandemic like it is the end of the…